Medicine Quest: In Search of Nature's Healing Secrets (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Medicine Quest: In Search of Nature's Healing Secrets Thursday, August 6 2009.

• In Medicine Quest , Mark Plotkin moves beyond the Amazon rainforests of his classic Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice to describe the ongoing race to find new medicines for intractable diseases such as AIDS, cancer, diabetes, and tuberculosis in far-flung places all over the world. While highlighting the unlikely marriage of natural products, indigenous wisdom, and biotechnology, Plotkin details discoveries that are producing stunning results in the laboratory: painkillers from the skin of rainforest frogs, anticoagulants from leech saliva, and antitumor agents from snake venom. An entertaining and educational weave of medicine, ecology, ethnobotany, history, exploration, and adventure, Medicine Quest will thrill scientists, naturalists, and armchair explorers, and heighten our appreciation for the inexhaustible therapeutic potential of our natural world.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Medicine Quest: In Search of Nature's Healing Secrets Thursday, August 6 2009.

• Added a contributor: Mark J. Plotkin: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Medicine Quest: In Search of Nature's Healing Secrets Thursday, July 16 2009.

• Time was running out, and the indefatigable frog detective Dr. John Daly decided to risk everything in one of the boldest scientific crapshoots of the twentieth century.